About Ernst Pfeiffer
Lived 1893 – 1955 (aged 61). Ernst Pfeiffer was a German entomologist.
Ernst Pfeiffer (20 December 1893, Munich – 28 May 1955, Munich) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
He was a publisher and bookseller. Pfeiffer made numerous collecting trips to Hungary, Dalmatia, Bulgaria, and Persia. He published many scientific papers on Rhopalocera in Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft and with Osthelder edited Lepidopteren-Fauna von Marasch in türkisch Nordsyrien in the same journal. His collection of Palearctic and Nearctic butterflies is in the Munich zoological museum Zoologische Staatssammlung München.
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Who was Ernst Pfeiffer?
German entomologist (1893-1955)
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Ernst Pfeiffer was born on 20 December 1893 in Munich.
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Ernst Pfeiffer died on 28 May 1955 in Munich.
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Ernst Pfeiffer was an entomologist.
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Ernst Pfeiffer was German.
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